The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-26
Cleveland and OolYar.

president of the United States, and
while we are upon the floor we de-
sire to offer few reasons why In
our opinion the nominations should
be made absolute in convention.
The nomination of the head OF
the ticket is already as good as
made, and it is to the fitness of the
man we propose for the second place
that we will address these remarks.
1t seems to have been predeter-
mined that the next vice president
shall be from the south and that he
shall be an editor. Watterson,
Grady and Burke have each been
mentioned. That the time has
come when a southern man can
with safety and propriety be pro-
posed for this office is granted. We
see no reason, however, why an edi-
tor is any more entitled to it than
tanner or COW boy, unless he is
best qualified. But since it is thus
determined, be it so.
In the very first place, it is not
fair and right that at the first occa-
sion when a southern man can be
named for this place that the lo1g
list of older men WAC have been SO
long expatriated, aud whose dis
qualification is predicated on their
patriotic services for their country,
should be set aside for youngsters.
The war between the states brought
the greatest men in the south to the
top-a royal race of heroes and pa
5rots-and this great honor should
be given one of them.
In the person of Col A. S. Colyar
Of the Nashville American are
merged all the clements of qualifca
ton. He served with great dis
tinction in the confederate congress
and is foremost among the list OF
southern confederates, and yet be
represents to-day the most adyanc-
ell idea of southern progress and
can be said to be the father OF the
young race of progressive giants
whose heavy tread IS heard echoing
among the mineral mountains Of
| the south.
Like Columbus, he went upon a
voyage of discovery and gave to the
world the New South. Aye, more!
He almost created it in that he dis
covered the elements of new crea-
ton and breathed into them the
breath of life. 1t is acknowledged
even by those who differ most radi-
ically with him that he has done
more for the south and in aid Of the
stupendous industrial revolution nov
going on than any other hundred
men living. Who dares dispute
that? The man who builds city is
greater than him that taketh it.
What greater service can man dc
his people and his country and his
generation than to be the moving
cause of the doubling of property
values and the leading instigator OF
ideas and acts that open up a Monte
Christian mine OF treasure under
almost every hill of the land Of his
people?
Standing squarely upon the dem
ocratic platform of a tariff for reve
nue. with incidental protection, be
has given more thought to tie col
lateral purpose than any other man
in the south. He does not believe,
as many charge, that protection per
Sc Is admissible under our constitu-
ton and he accepts in its fullest
meaning the democratic theory of q
tariff for revenue, but in his great
wisdom he sees the necessary Incl
dental effect Of the levy and with
master mind he has sought to direct
and locate it upon such articles and
| products as will best nurse, promote
and protect the south's new indus
tries.
His great Samson-llke strength
lies here. 1t Is dawning upon the
universal apprehension that in
the application Of this principle
lies the safety Of the industrial
prosperity of the south, and with
the crushing power Of logic and in
domitable, nwaVering zeal he has
hammered it into the popular mind.
1t is in this chiefly that he has
shown his lofty patriotism and COS
mopolitan greatness. Even in the
face of popular prejudice and out
cry born of misconception of his
purposes and inability to grasp the
ends 10 view, he dared even ahtag
onize seemingly his own people
shat they might prosper in the end.
Subjected to contumely, derided,
misrepresented and abused, he yet
held on to his great purposes and
with steady nerve and greater ener-
gy and stronger determination, he
drove straight ahead, until he has
forced the universal acknowledge
ment that his policy is wisest.
Confessedly the leading man in
the south, linking the past with the
present, representing the older gen
Grafton of southern patriots and at
the same time leading the leglons
of the stalwart young sons Of the
south who are creating a new en-
pire out Of old material, he stands
in his person snd purposes colos-
sal embodiment Of southern energy.
A million votes will come to dem
ocracy to stay when this greatest
exponent of "the southern idea" is
nominated. 1t will mean that dem
ocracy, still denying the power IN
! der the constitution to levy a tariff
for protection, is yet willing to &c
lay it that incidental protection will
be afforded where it is needed. Ii
is just here that Col. Colyar has
been Inexperienced and mlsrepre
sented. He goes not step further
than this, and this is exactly the
party platform and exactly coinci
dent with Mr.. Cleve!and's position
Col. Colyar has been forced to as
sert it more vigorously than any
one else, for against him the free
traders have hurled their deadliest
shafts, and he has therefore seemed
to verge upon straight protection
but 1t is not so. He takes the Chi
cago platform straight and at one
swallows tariff for revenue witt
incidental protection-and in nomi